--- title: At a French birthday party the tune is the same as "Happy birthday",… — Dates and birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: At a French birthday party the tune is the same as "Happy birthday", but the words are Joyeux anniversaire, and someone shouts Souffle les bougies ! (blow out the candles!). Who acts: tune, words, someone. 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(blow out the candles!). **Who acts:** tune, words, someone · **What happens:** be, shout, blow out · **To what, where:** French birthday party, Joyeux anniversaire, Souffle, candles This is a sentence of the lesson «Dates and birthdays» of the french course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tune, words, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:011-dates-and-birthdays.lesson:3 # text = At a French birthday party the tune is the same as "Happy birthday", but the words are Joyeux anniversaire, and someone shouts Souffle les bougies ! (blow out the candles!). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 011-dates-and-birthdays.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tune tune NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 13 Happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 Joyeux Joyeux PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 anniversaire anniversaire NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 nsubj _ _ 26 shouts shout VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 Souffle souffle X FW Foreign=Yes 26 obj _ _ 28 les le X FW Foreign=Yes 27 flat:foreign _ _ 29 bougies bougie X FW Foreign=Yes 27 flat:foreign _ _ 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 32 blow blow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 candles candle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 36 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 38 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the tune | | | a French birthday party | | as Happy birthday; same *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the words | Joyeux anniversaire | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | someone | Souffle | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent souffle=Topic | | 4 | **blow out** | infinitive | | the candles | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent candle=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:french:011-dates-and-birthdays.lesson:3`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dates and birthdays, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/11-dates-and-birthdays/2/) - next →: [Dates and birthdays, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/11-dates-and-birthdays/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/11-dates-and-birthdays/)